Legal Research

The power of P2P
CNET News.com's Marguerite Reardon defends of peer-to-peer technology: Peer-to-peer technology has gotten a bad rap for years, but a group of Internet service providers led by Verizon Communications is working to harness the technology to reduce network traffic and speed up video downloads on the Web...

NASAA Settles with Peer-to-Peer Lending Service
NASAA announced that state securities regulators have reached a settlement in principle with Prosper Marketplace, Inc...

Study Says Cox Communications Blocks Peer-to-Peer Web Traffic
Source: Lexology, June 5, 2008. Study says Cox Communications blocks P2P web trafficPaul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP"The results of a study released by the Max Planck Institute (?MPI?) show that Cox Communications manages transmissions to and from peer-to-peer ('P2P'?) file sharing sites".

Jammie Thomas Granted New Trial
In a recently issued opinion, Judge Davis has granted Jammie Thomas a new trial, overturning an earlier verdict holding her liable in the amount of $222,000 for file sharing music over a peer-to-peer network...

ISPs get legislation to help them police file-sharers
The government has published its interim Digital Britain report today. I have written a post on various aspects of the report at Ofcom watch, but here I want to just highlight the government’s announced approach to illegal Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing...

Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices -- BitTorrent Targeted
Comcast came clean with the Federal Communications Commission late Friday, detailing how it throttled and targeted peer-to-peer traffic -- maneuvers it has repeatedly denied...

DC Madame Phone List
Telephone Records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service (Pamela Martin and Associates)

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

Haw can I join with my family who live in the USA?
Only you are allowed to can join your sister....

How to cash a cashier's check without ID?
I would get some I.D.! Other than that, maybe you can tell the investigator you ...

How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...

What type of legal issues are there if one was to start selling crafts online (through a site or auction service) and/or from home? ie. How would you have to make before having to filing taxes and any other problems that
Since hobby expenses are deductible only to the extent of hobby income, it is im...

MRV Communications, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
MRV Communications, Inc. 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Veolia Water
allegedly overestimated water usage for residential customers.

Automated Calls
Voice Mail Broadcasting Corp. pays $180,000 FTC settlement for telemarketing violations.

MRV Communications, Inc.
Nasdaq: MRVC

NOS Communications
settles class action lawsuit regarding deceptive marketing practices

US Postal Service Workers
File Labor and Wages Class Action